Cervical cancer

Ladies, January is the month of raising awareness about cervical cancer. In the US, 250000 women are affected every year. One can refrain from the cancer by avoiding human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is sexually transmitted. We can eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem through intensified vaccinati...

Cervical cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. A recent publication in nature reported the extensive molecular characterization of 228 primary cervical cancers, and has been dubbed as the largest comprehensive genomic study of cervical cancer to date. The authors observed strik...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of death in women globally. Increased awareness and early diagnosis has reduced the death toll over the years; but still there is considerable risk that exists. According to the estimated of American Cancer Society, approximately 12,990 new cases of invasive cervical c...